Until December 2022, California's reservoirs remained below capacity. However, although there were storms in December, the above-average temperatures resulted in heavy rainfall rather than the usual snowfall, which contributed to improve the hydrological situation. In January 2023, steady snowfall in the Sierra Nevada region led to...

On 16 January, one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites captured this image, which shows a rare tropical cyclone that had formed in mid-January in the northern Atlantic Ocean. This is an unusual occurrence for this time of year, as the Atlantic hurricane season typically spans from June to November. The storm developed off the northeast...

Iceberg B-22a was formed in 2001, when it calved from the ice shelf formed by the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica and started floating in the Amundsen Sea. In 2022 and 2023, it started moving towards the northwest and drifted by about 112 kilometres, 21 of which were covered between December 2022 and January 2023. This image was acquired by...

Latvia is at risk of being affected by the worst flooding episode since 1981 due to an ice jam in the Daugava River. The ice jam is affecting the normal flow of the river, causing the water level to rise and threatening to flood large areas in central Latvia. The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) has been activated (EMSR644) to map...

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